Crawling is the Journey
You promised that you were back, Sjarlene, I hear you say. And then you no sooner started back, or you skipped a week again. Oh, my. Guys. I have had challenges. Very big ones. The past came knocking and would not go away, so I had to open the door and deal with issues I […]
It took Shrek 2, the movie, to remind us of Bonnie Tyler. Remind me, who was she, you ask? She was that buxom blond bomb with the husky voice that gave us songs like It’s a Heartache and Total Eclipse of the Heart, and that song that so resonates with me right now: Holding out […]
John Denver sang: Take me home, Country Roads. Simon Garfunkel sang: Homeward Bound. Michael Bublé gave us I Wanna Go Home. Andrea Bocelli was responsible for Time to Say Goodbye. There is a very long list of songs that deal with going home, then there are those who do not know whether they are coming […]
We are all familiar with the term: Midlife Crisis. It is supposed to be that period of transition in life where a person struggles with their identity. A friend of mine once summed it up so well. She had quite a dry sense of humour. Her portly, balding neighbour one day arrived home with a […]
One Love. One Heart. Let’s get together and feel all right. That great anthem to hope that is unifying in bringing together people from all levels of society, to change for the better, and overcome life’s obstacles. My source tells me that it is an empowering, optimistic view held by Bob Marley, carried throughout much […]
New marriages are fragile things. In our first few years of being married, Colin one day asked me: Why is it that I do everything wrong? This was because of a discussion around something trivial like the correct way to hang a toilet roll. No, Colin, I said. You are not doing it wrong; you […]
Okay. So. I was temporarily robbed of my happy. That is the bad news. The good news is it gave me a lot of time for self-pity, misery, gloom, melancholy and finally, introspection. Which is not always a good thing, sometimes it is a great thing. Problem is, there is a lot you must work […]
A friend of mine sent me a WhatsApp joke in the week. It was around menopause, and all the unexpected surprises that come with it. Amongst others, not only does The Mean Ms. M rob you of your figure and leave you with a muffin top and hot flushes, but it also steals your sleep. […]
One of our favourite guilty pleasures still is going down to Benguela Cove for a late afternoon bottle of wine. It is one of those venues that reminds one of just how splendid life can be. You sit there in the most beautiful surrounds, looking out onto the lagoon with the mountains in the distance, […]
Guys, I am in trouble. We are 80 days away from a wedding, and I resemble Mrs. Buffel, beached on a sand dune, waiting for my skin to shed. This problem is real. You see Daughter-in-Law-to-be is a tiny little thing. She comes knee-high to a flea. The Mother on that side, comes knee-high to […]